PA PA - Margaret 'Peggy' Reber, 14, Lebanon, 25 May 1968

[newshound81]

Her vicious torture and murder remain unsolved.

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/16784/news

 

[Robin Hood]

Amazon.com: Justice Denied: The Unsolved Murder of Peggy Reber (9781475246452): Michelle Gooden: [email]Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com[/email]/images/I/41pD8CdhLSL.@@AMEPARAM@@41pD8CdhLSL

Justice Denied: The Unsolved Murder of Peggy Reber.

''Fourteen-year-old Peggy Reber looked evil directly in the eye and then the demon beat her, strangled her and mutilated her with a 5-foot hunting bow. When he was done with his sadistic frenzy he threw her body on the floor of her bedroom and he simply walked away''

''How could detectives overlook two men that obviously had keys to the apartment where Peggy was savagely murdered? Could it be that one was a local attorney?''

 

[Backwoods]

There's another story (long) on the case, also from Philadelphia Weekly, from earlier in the same year (2008) as the one linked to start this thread. (Actually, you can link to it from that page, but it could be easy to miss -- so posting its own link here, for those who want to read up on this one.)

Awful, awful crime!

Death in the House of Broken Hearts
A small Pennsylvania town revisits the grisly four-decade-old torture and slaying case of a teenage girl.

...But the person on the floor turned out to be Reber's 14-year-old daughter Peggy. The girl had been beaten and viciously bitten on her upper body. She'd been strangled with either an electrical cord or a scarf (depending on whom you asked afterward), sodomized with a mop handle or a jar (again, depending), and sexually assaulted with an archer's bow, the pointy tip of which came to protrude from her upper chest. ...

Cliff Roland ... chief of detectives with the Lebanon Police Department in 1968, investigated...Peggy Reber's murder....

Now 89, Roland...remains particularly sickened and angered by what was done to Peggy Reber.

"I had never, ever seen anything like it in my life," says Roland, a World War II vet who was at Good Samaritan Hospital 40 years ago when Peggy's mutilated body was autopsied.

"It was so horrendous ... I can't tell you about it," he says, his voice shaking....

Within two days of finding Peggy Reber's body, Roland had eight suspects. Within a week, nearly double that number. ...

read more at: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/cover-story/38464204.html

 

[scriptgirl]

One of the worst cases I have ever heard of. Here is another article:
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/justice_for_peggy/4756/

 

[folieadeuxnola]

50 years later, unsolved Peggy Reber murder still haunts Lebanon
50 years later, unsolved Peggy Reber murder still haunts Lebanon

Few Lebanon residents usually cared what happened in the cheap apartment at 770 Maple St., where rumors of a rapid rotation of visiting men was best left ignored.

But after Mary Reber returned to the apartment in the early morning of May 26, 1968 and found her 14-year-old daughter, Margaret Lynn “Peggy” Reber, brutally assaulted and murdered, people in Lebanon would spend the rest of their lives wondering what happened that night.

 

[Legally Bland]

It’s been more than 50 years, but Peggy Reber, a troubled 14-year-old girl murdered in horrific circumstances in her Lebanon city home, still has no justice.

It was in the early morning hours of May 26, 1968, when Mary Reber returned to her home at 770 Maple St. after a weekend trip with friends to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and found her daughter, Margaret Lynn “Peggy” Reber, dead on a bedroom floor. She had been brutally assaulted before her murder, according to police.

Her killer has never been identified.

[...]

Unfortunately, the exciting break in investigative technology [genetic genealogy] that solved the Mirack murder doesn’t seem likely to help in Reber’s case.

“We had a DNA expert review our evidence,” Graf said. “The DNA expert indicated nothing we presented would turn up any additional results with DNA testing.”

Graf said the trail surrounding Peggy Reber’s death has gone cold, but they’re still working to find the killer.

More than 50 years later, the unsolved murder of 14-year-old Peggy Reber still puzzles investigators - LebTown

 

[Richard]

Margaret Lynn “Peggy” Reber​

BIRTH 22 Jul 1953
DEATH 25 May 1968 (aged 14) Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL Grand View Memorial Park, Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
PLOT Garden of Sermon on the Mount

LINK:

Margaret Lynn “Peggy” Reber (1953-1968) - Find a...

Peggy, as she was known in life, was brutally murdered almost 60 years ago. No one has ever been held accountable for her death and even after all this time justice is being denied to her. To read more about Peggy please go to myspace.com/justice4peggyreber. Please don't let her be forgotten.

www.findagrave.com

 

[Richard]

Margaret Lynn “Peggy” Reber​

BIRTH 22 Jul 1953
DEATH 25 May 1968 (aged 14) Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL Grand View Memorial Park, Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
PLOT Garden of Sermon on the Mount

LINK:

Margaret Lynn “Peggy” Reber (1953-1968) - Find a...

Peggy, as she was known in life, was brutally murdered almost 60 years ago. No one has ever been held accountable for her death and even after all this time justice is being denied to her. To read more about Peggy please go to myspace.com/justice4peggyreber. Please don't let her be forgotten.

www.findagrave.com

Bumping this thread up.